WinSCP is hands-down the best
SCP/SFTP/FTP tool I've found for Windows. Even better, it's fully open source
and free.

PuTTY
is a great cross platform (win/mac/*nix) client package for SSH, SCP ,
SFTP, as well as things you shouldn't be using like Telnet and FTP. It has a
very good SSH authentication agent in the form of Pageant.

NoteTab is a really
good and simpe text editor that comes in three grades. I use the light
(freeware) version for a lot of my note taking and text cleanup. They offer
several more capable versions that I'm tempted to buy.

Irfanview is a
lightning fast image viewer. That's it - but it will view most any image format
known. It'll also let you translate between formats and do some limited scaling
and processing. And it's free.

PureText
is one of those things you probably never knew you needed. It removes
formatting from data you are cutting and pasting. I'm forever cutting text from
documents or spreadsheets. It's great that windows carries formatting along by
default, but I almost never want it. PureText lets me set up a hotkey that lets
me paste unformatted text regardless of the source formating. If you
do much document editing you want this and may not even know it. It's free, so
it's easy to try.

Multimon
Taskbar puts taskbars/toolbars on your additional monitors. When
you drag an app to an alternate monitor you get a taskbar button for it on that
monitor's taskbar. Even better, it gives you buttons next to the
minimize/maximize/close buttons on that window that let you move a window to
the other monitors. You are running more than one monitor, right? If
you aren't I really suggest that you dust that old monitor off and give it a
try. Oscar has free and more capable paid versions.

Computer

Cobalt RAQs are small servers that were discontinued by Sun. They available very cheaply and are
perfect for small dedicated server applications. I have several running current
kernels under Debian.

Tim Wiley has some great
information about installing Debian Linux and recent kernels on RAQ3 and RAQ4
machines. I've used this to good effect on a number of
machines.

The Dincom RaQ Resource has quite a bit of
useful informaiton about ROMs, CPU upgrades, and power supply
problems.

Jeff Walters' site Parvi.us is a great source of ROM information and Linux Kernal
patches for the Cobalt machines.

Hardware

Soekris Engineering makes a line of single board computers
that are great platforms for specialized servers, routers, and wireless
applications. .

When I left Southwest
Research Institute in January 1996 I knew that I would need to launch a
premptive strike to make a clean getaway. Given the time honored tradition
that the last person to leave an organization becomes responsible for
everything that goes wrong, I figured that I'd formalize the process.The Blame Displacement
Formresulted. Someone scanned and
forwarded it to a friend. It developed a life of it's own, and I've gotten
email from people in something like 150 countries. You can get a PDF here (about 40
Kilobytes)